Siarhei Lukyanenka

Role: Project Manager and Scrum Master

Outline: Managed and coordinated all aspects of various projects within the company, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and stakeholder expectations in an Agile environment. Oversaw multiple project teams (up to 20 FTE), resources, and budgets to drive successful outcomes and achieve business goals.

Responsibilities:

• Aligned strategic goals across teams with Client Management and Engineering leadership, improving project delivery times and achieved a record high in client satisfaction scores, averaging 4.7/5.
• Maintained transparency by presenting comprehensive project updates with detailed KPIs on schedule, scope, productivity, and quality. Created high-quality presentations and maintained exceptional documentation standards, increasing stakeholder satisfaction and facilitating informed decision-making.
• Directed cross-functional teams and facilitated all Agile/Scrum ceremonies, including planning sessions, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives. Provided coaching on Agile methodologies and best practices, boosting productivity by 17% and increasing team satisfaction by 25%.
• Created a risk and issues registry with mitigation strategies, reducing project risks by 27% and significantly increasing the on-time delivery rate.
• Implemented best practices and drove process enhancements, resulting in 17% increased productivity and higher project success rates. Identified and resolved dependencies and impediments early, reducing project delivery times and improving team performance.
• Monitored project performance by tracking metrics and evaluating KPIs in productivity, quality, scope, and schedule. Balanced key performance indicators, leading to increased project efficiency and a significant boost in customer satisfaction scores.
• Assessed source code, testing processes, DevOps practices, and architecture to identify key improvement areas. Integrated a technical debt initiative into the delivery pipeline, reducing technical debt by 30% in six months and improving system performance, code maintenance, and feature implementation speed.
• Ensured all quality gates, maintaining high standards and consistency, significantly improving product quality, reducing defect rates, and minimizing defect leakage by 15%.
• Conducted research to address shipping errors and packaging mistakes

Outline: Managed a team of engineers in an Agile environment to deliver high-impact projects, ensuring timely delivery and top quality.

Responsibilities:

• Implemented Agile best practices, boosting team performance by 17%.
• Facilitated all Agile/Scrum ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives. Provided expert coaching on Agile practices to team members and clients.
• Oversaw internal teams and external contractors through all phases of the project life cycle, ensuring seamless coordination and successful project delivery.
• Enabled the Agile team to increase commitment rate through collaboration approaches and early identification of dependencies and potential impediments.
• Handled conflict resolution effectively, enhancing team communication and collaboration.
• Established and communicated comprehensive project timelines, budgets, KPIs, deliverables, and milestones to all stakeholders, ensuring awareness, alignment, and engagement at each stage
• Orchestrated business requirement analysis through interviews with Product Owners to accurately define project scope.
• Configured status dashboards with essential metrics and KPIs, conducted regular project reviews, and prepared weekly progress reports for top management.
• Developed and executed a comprehensive risk management plan, reducing project delivery delays and enhancing operational resilience.

Outline: Delivered comprehensive project management for three high-value projects in the reinsurance business domain. Coordinated a cross-functional team of engineers, successfully managing all projects concurrently to ensure on-time delivery of all milestones.

Responsibilities:

• Led the successful transformation of 3 major projects from a traditional Waterfall to a dynamic Agile (Scrum) environment, enhancing project adaptability and team responsiveness, resulting in a 25% accelerated project delivery time.
• Coached the internal team of engineers and client management in Scrum theory, values, events, and artifacts (including the Acceptance Criteria and Definition of Done), enhancing their understanding and application of Agile principles.
• Implemented Test-Driven Development (TDD) and pair programming techniques, improving code quality and fostering collaborative problem-solving.
• Collaborated with Product and Technical owners to ensure projects remained on track and aligned with business goals and expectations.
• Directed a cloud migration project, successfully transitioning critical services to Azure, which resulted in enhanced service reliability, reduced operational costs, and improved system scalability and security.
• Ensured compliance with internal policies and procedures, and prepared the project for ISO standards assessment.

Led the QA team, actively interviewing and onboarding new employees while mentoring newcomers. Developed and executed QA strategies, including test planning, strategy definition, and team coordination. Implemented comprehensive testing workflows using tools and frameworks for automated testing: Selenium WebDriver for web application testing, JMeter, LoadRunner for performance testing, and cukesREST for REST API testing. Additionally, established continuous integration with CI tools like Jenkins and Bamboo.

Executed detailed QA processes including requirements examination, crafting comprehensive test documentation, performing security, smoke, regression, and localization testing, and developing automated and performance tests using JMeter and Selenium.